...Hallyu began roughly 12 years ago when the rest of Asia discovered Korean soap operas. One of the breakthrough dramas was a series 'Winter Sonata' starring Choi Ji-woo & Bae Young-Joon. After that, more Korean dramas saw their way to foreign shores and Korean films and music started to follow suit. Korean marketing people started to see a Korea-centric trend. They dubbed this flow "The Korean Wave" or Hallyu....

13.3.13

[News] ’7th Grade Civil Servant’ to air on Japanese TV channel KNTV.

’7th Grade Civil Servant’ will begin airing on Japan’s KNTV
channel starting on April 20th. Japanese viewers will soon be able to
catch the show every Saturday and Sunday at 8:45PM. However to hook
viewers, the channel will air the first two episodes ahead of regular
broadcast on March 30th.

A representative revealed, “There is much word-of-mouth about ’7th Grade Civil Servant’ going around in Japan. I think there is high anticipation for Joo Won from the dramas ‘Baker King Kim Tak Goo‘ and ‘Ojakyo Brothers‘ as well as Chansung from idol group 2PM.”